Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig pavlovmedia.net. NS
Answer
pavlovmedia.net. 5 NS ns3.pavlovmedia.com.
pavlovmedia.net. 5 NS ns1.pavlovmedia.com.
pavlovmedia.net. 5 NS ns2.pavlovmedia.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.pavlovmedia.com. 5 A 66.253.253.50
ns2.pavlovmedia.com. 5 A 50.30.208.76
ns3.pavlovmedia.com. 5 A 68.234.128.75
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0